Presentation FormatThe primary purpose of the 3MP competition is to give a simple, understandable overview of one’s scholarly project, and its secondary purpose is to convey your own personality and enthusiasm. Win your audience over with what you’ve studied and who you are.• Contestants will give their 3-minute presentation with a single PowerPoint Slide in preliminary rounds on Thursday, 1 March 2018. • The audience and a panel of faculty will judge the presentations according to three criteria: Content (how clear and interesting the ideas, how convincing, how well arranged), Delivery (voice, pace, gestures, enthusiasm, professionalism, staying within time), Slide (understandable, helpful, interesting).• Half of the contestants will advance to the final round on Friday, 2 March 2018.• The audience and a panel of faculty will judge the finalists based on the same criteria. The faculty judges will award monetary prizes, and the audience will vote for the $100 People’s Choice Award.

Check out recordings of the 3MP competition held during the 2016 BYU English Symposium: YouTube Playlist - 5 winners from 2016 and YouTube Playlist - complete set of participants (36 videos).

Proposal InstructionsSubmit an abstract of 250-300 words that states the main claim of your project on this Google Form.DUE 31 JANUARY 2018